Top News

At Tokyo Disneyland, the park's rides often get overshadowed by its other attractions. For many visitors, a day at The Happiest Place on Earth (in Japan) is more about catching parades, taking photos, or munching on the limited-time treats that ar...

It's summer in Japan! How do you like to spend the season? Many Japanese enjoy going to the beach or having fun at the public pools and water parks to take a cool dip in the scorching weather. Natsu-matsuri (summer festivals) and fireworks display...

Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura is working on creating a Variant Play Arts Kai Batman figuring. Its origins are quite surprising, since it comes from a game project, a game concept that perhaps influenced character desi...

No. Not the adaptation of OrchidSeed's bishoujo Seven Deadly Sins figures. It's still radio silence on that project. The adaptation of Nakaba Suzuki's shounen advanture Seven Deadly Sins has now been slated to run Sundays at 5pm on MBS/TBS.

Since Godzilla, the King of Monsters, will be returning to his rightful home of Japan this week, it's only right that he revisits a few of his favorite stomping grounds. In particular, this iconic giant will be paying a visit to the gardens of Tok...

A teaser video for the upcoming Dragon Ball Z film is now out on Toei's YouTube channel. The anime feature film is slated for a release in Japan's Golden Week next year. Watch it here:"The worst wish in history, now the despair begins," is the tea...

ATLUS USA and Nippon Ichi Software America have today announced that they will be bringing the Japanese SRPG Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord to western markets. ATLUS USA will be handling the localization and North American distribution wh...

The Inner Realm is a dangerous place to find oneself, what with all of the supernatural beings trying to consume the souls of all unwary humans! Thanks to a great group of companions and their powerful MINDs, Kei might just survive the otherworldl...

Peter Jackson Reveals 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' Poster Posted by Chris Beveridge July 23, 2014 at 03:44 PM Peter Jackson has a bit of goodness out this week for fans of The Hobbit films as we get read for the third and final inst...

In addition to this season's adaptation of Io Sakisaka's shoujo manga Blue Spring Ride, a live-action movie is planned for December 13th with 21-year-old actress/fashion model Tsubasa Honda (FASHION STORY-Model-, It All Began When I Met You) and 2...

Reading can be a little scary at first, especially when there are a lot of big words and difficult phrases. But thanks to publisher Harper Collins and Hello Kitty, reading can be much more fun and adorable.

Moviecollection reported on Friday that Kumamon will have a special collaboration with the upcoming live-action Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen film. Specialty popcorn buckets purchased at Aeon Cinema and 109Cinemas will feature images of Kumamon...

���I have amnesia, is it so bad? ��� or "The Obligatory Summer Episode. " When I watch Persona 4 the Golden I am reminded of Tom Stoppard's absurdist play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. For the uninitiated, R&G are Dead is based on Shakesp...

I hope you've brought your appetite and love of french fries. Because in Japan, a fast food chain is rolling out an all-you-can-eat french fry buffet. Starting today, burger joint Lotteria is letting customers stuff their faces with as many fries ...

Voice actors from the Magi anime give a preview of the game's heart-pounding excitement! Shinobu Ohtaka's Magi hit 22 volumes this month, with the latest one coming out on July 18. Fans of the series were treated to a special surprise, as this vol...

The official website of the anime adaptation of Yusei Matsui's manga Assassination Classroom has revealed that the series will be airing during the Winter 2014/2015 anime season. Additionally, new visuals have released for the anime as well as a n...

During a recent visit to Capcom USA, Nintendo Minute caught up with Brett Elston for a quick chat about Mega Man and Comic-Con. During the discussion a date was revealed for Mega Man Battle Network's debut on Wii U Virtual Console.

Jul 25, 2014 Brace yourselves, everyone. The director and three of the main cast from the Rurouni Kenshin film will be heading to Manila for the August 6 red carpet premiere of the film's most awaited sequel, "Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno.

The March 26th end of the latest Japanese TV rebroadcast of 2008's Macross Frontier concluded with the announcement that a new TV anime is the works. There was no additional information at the time, and it should like you probably shouldn't much ...

Wake Up Girls! is making up for its lack of innovation in storytelling to innovate with Blu-ray editing instead – many a scene are redrawn on Blu-ray, intentionally made to look worse, for no comprehensible reason.

The airing season of the Shingeki no Bahamut Genesis (Rage of Bahamut Genesis)anime has been announced in a recent magazine ad. The anime, an adaptation of Cygame's popular mobile CCG Shingeki no Bahamut (Rage of Bahamut), will be airing this Octo...

We are back with another comparison article between the TV and Blu-ray releases of J. C. Staff's spring 2014 anime series Witch Craft Works. Since the Blu-rays are released after the original TV version, studios have additional time to reproduce s...

A couple days ago Famitsu magazine heralded the coming of more playable characters for Hyrule Warriors, all three of which hail from Nintendo 64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Koei Tecmo followed the news with a nice batch of screen...

Zankyou no Terror - 03 Not much in the way of surprises here, but when what you're expecting is what I was expecting from Zankyou no Terror, that's not a bad thing. We're still very much in the feeling out stages with Terror in Resonance, I think,...

As anime episodes go, that one was quite the slap in the face. It's not like the first three episodes of Tokyo Ghoul were low-key and discreet, but the insanity was sure cranked up in a big way this week.

KyoAni's "Free -Eternal Summer-" has teamed with a karaoke in Akihabara to create a new kind of business, a homo karaoke – not the kind of place a male otaku would want to take their one male friend. This is really a place no one should want to go.

Dragon Ball Z Battle Of Gods While we had a few shots from the teaser show on the morning show in Japan that helped to announce the 2015 debut of a new Dragon Ball Z movie, the footage itself has no surfaced online for fans to check out.

Tomodachi Life is weird enough as it is, and its quirky world will soon be invaded by a bunch of Nintendo characters beating the crap out of one another. Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai posted another pic of the day, offering up a peek...

This week's issue of Jump reveals the next One Piece game, a four-player alliance battle game called One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X. The action game is set for a winter release on Nintendo 3DS in Japan.

A Letter To Momo A Letter to Momo continues its slow progress through the North American release circuit as GKIDS has released the first dub trailer for the show, which is getting a limited theatrical run in a few festivals to show it off a bit.

The 35th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump announced that Sakura Haruno (Hyakukō no In Ver. ) and Kakashi Hatake (Great Ninja War Ver. ) are playable in the Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution game for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC!

This page

This is a Katsu News archive page. It shows how the site appeared at July 26, 2014, 12:30 AM JST.

The most current version of the site is always available on our home page. To view an earlier snapshot, click here and change the date.